Like having the wealthiest pay their fair share in taxes, this is wildly popular and probably impossible because …AWESOME BIPARTISANSHIP!!!

Attorney General Eric Holder said during a speech on Tuesday night at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library that it’s time to consider setting national standards for how elections should be handled.

“A recent study by the MacArthur Foundation found that nearly 90 percent of those who voted in last month’s election would support creating national voting standards,” Holder said, according to prepared remarks.

It’s a thorny issue, because the Constitution give states the right to run their own elections. The Supreme Court has found for voting as a civil right. So basically any Federal law would have to be based on civil rights. I guess it’s possible but I’m not sure how to go about it.

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